COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Gold futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), short positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 40,530 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 37,292 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 128 records in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 67,241 contracts on 18 November 2025; they recorded a minimum of 3,983 on 2 May 2023; they were equal on average to 16,789.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 41874.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 37292.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 40530.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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